Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:28:42 -0400
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4 0/4] x86, kdump: Fix crashkernel high with old
 kexec-tools
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:39:15PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Vivek found some problems with old kexec-tools.
> 
> We keep the old crashkernel=X to old behavoir, so it will not break
> old kexec-tools.
> Add crashkernel=X,high to support new kexec-tools that supports loading high.
> when high is used, memblock will search from top to low.
> if the allocated one is above 4G, kernel will try to auto allocate
> 72M under 4G for swiotlb.
> user could crashkernel=Y,low to change 72M to other value.
> 
> -v2:	reorder the patch sequences
> 	crashkernel=X,high, crashkernel=Y,low only handle simple form.
> 	crashkernel=X will override crashkernel=X;high crashkernel=Y;low
> -v3:	update description in kernel-parameters.txt
> 	update get_last_crashkernel and _simple checking about suffix.
> -v4:	update to use ,high again, and also not abuse parse_crashkernel_simple
> 

This series looks good to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Vivek
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